Nitobe Jūjirō (新渡戸十次郎, 1820 – 1868)Iwate Historical Biography Committee.�
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Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

. His father was

Nitobe Tsutō Nitobe Tsutō (新渡戸傳, 1793 – 1871)Iwate Historical Biography Committee.�岩手県姓氏歴史人物大辞典��1998, p. 289. was a samurai of Morioka of the late Edo period. He was Martial arts scholar. Life Nitobe Tsutō was born on De ...

.Iwate Historical Biography Committee.�
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��1998, pp. 971-974. His sons were Shichirō and Inazō.

Life

Nitobe was born in

Hanamaki is a Cities of Japan, city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 94,691, and a population density of 100 persons per km², in 37,773 households. The total area of the city is . Hanamaki is famous as the birthplace ...

on July 20, 1820. His father was Tsutō (傳). His posthumous name was Tsunenori(常訓). When Jūjirō was just born, Jūjirō's grandfather Koretami bought the anger of the

Morioka Domain 300px, Ruins of Morioka Castle was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was ruled throughout its history by the Nanbu clan. It was called during the early part of its history. It was located in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, ...

and Koretami was exiled to Tanabe. In 1857, Jūjirō was appointed ''Sanbongi Shinden Goyogakari'' (new rice field affairs official in Sanbongi). He worked with his father to cultivate and successfully got water to flow into the

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called the Ina River. In 1860, he planned a new town called Inaoi-chō (now part of

Towada is a city in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 60,697, and a population density of 84 persons per km2 in 27,677 households. The total area of the city is . Geography Towada is in the foothills of the Hakkōda M ...

) using a four-way grid pattern, divided into 12 neighborhoods. This was the forerunner to modern city planning in Japan. He died on January 18, 1868.Kokusho Kankōkai, 1981. p. 116. His death was mourned by his father, his family, and the townspeople.

Family

Depending upon the source, Nitobe Jūjirō and the entire Nitobe clan are descendants of either the Minamoto clan or the Taira clan (specifically, 's branch). Tsunetane's grandson, (常秀, Tsunetane's son Tanemasa(胤正)'s sonKokusho Kankōkai, 1981. pp. 109–110.) took over Nitobe in

Shimotsuke Province was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Tochigi Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''SHimotsuke''" in . Shimotsuke was bordered by Kōzuke Province, Kōzuke, Hitachi Province, ...

. Tsunehide continued inheritance with Tsunechika (常親), Yasutane (泰胤), Tsunesato (常邑), Tsunesada (常貞)、Sadatsuna (貞綱), Sadahiro (貞広), Hiromori (広盛), Tsunemochi (常望) Tsunetada (常忠), Tsunenobu (常信), and Nobumori (信盛) from generation to generation. Sadatsuna lived in Nitobe and died in 1309. During the

Nanboku-chō period The Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代, ''Nanboku-chō jidai'', "North and South court period", also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period), spanning from 1336 to 1392, was a period that occurred during the formative years of the Mur ...

, Sadahiro and his son Hiromori both fought on the

Southern Court The were a set of four emperors (Emperor Go-Daigo and his line) whose claims to sovereignty during the Nanboku-chō period spanning from 1336 through 1392 were usurped by the Northern Court. This period ended with the Southern Court definitively ...

side. Sadahiro died in 1337. Hiromori died in Shinano in 1351 during the war. Tsunetada and his son Tsunenobu both served

Ashikaga Mitsukane (1378–1409) was a Nanboku-chō period warrior, and the Kamakura-fu's third Kantō kubō, (''Shōgun'' Deputy). Being the eldest son, he succeeded his father Ujimitsu in 1398 at the age of 21 when he died during an epidemic. Like his father, M ...

and Mochiuji of the

Kantō kubō (also called , , or ) was a title equivalent to ''shōgun'' assumed by Ashikaga Motouji after his nomination to ''Kantō kanrei'', or deputy shōgun for the Kamakura-fu, in 1349.Kokushi Daijiten (1983:542) Motouji transferred his original title t ...

. After Tsunenobu's death, his son Nobumori returned to Nitobe. Nobumori's daughter was Moriyori (盛頼)'s wife. As for the inheritor, Nobumori welcomed the clan, Motoyoshi Narizumi (元良成澄)'s child, Moriyori (盛頼) as an adopted child, and became Nitobe for the first time. Moriyori continued inheritance with Yoritane (頼胤), Yoshitane (良胤), Tanemochi (胤望), Yorinaga (頼長), Taneshige (胤重), and Tokiharu (春治) from generation to generation. Tokiharu's third son Tsunetsuna (常綱, popular name was Densuke(伝助)) split up and became a Hanamaki Kyūjin (upper class retainer). Before Tsunetsuna became Kyūjin, Tsunetsuna served

Nanbu Masanao Nanbu may refer to: Places * Nanbu, Aomori, Japan * Nanbu, Tottori, Japan * Nanbu, Yamanashi, Japan * Nanbu County, Sichuan Province, China * Nanbu Domain, a feudal domain in northeastern Japan People with the surname *, Japanese samurai and ''da ...

. After Tsunetsuna's death, Tsunetsuna's second son Sadaaki (貞紹, popular name was Denzō(伝蔵)) inherited. After Sadaaki, Yoshiaki (義紹, popular names were Kyūsuke (九助), Densuke (伝助), and Heizo (平蔵)) inherited. After Yoshiaki's death, Yoshiaki's nephew (Yoshiaki's brother Tsunekatsu(常佸)'s son) Tsunemochi (常以) inherited. After Tsunemochi's death, Tsunemochi's brother Tsunetoki (常言, popular name was Denzō (伝蔵)) inherited. After Tsunetoki, Tsuneyoshi (常贇, popular name was Densuke (伝助)) inherited. Tsuneyoshi was Jūjirō's great-grandfather. Tsuneyoshi married Jūjirō's great-grandmother Oei (おゑい, daughter of Ōta Hidenori (太田秀典) of Hanamaki). Tsuneyoshi Died in 1803. Jūjirō's grandfather was Koretami (維民, heir to the reign of

Nanbu Toshitaka was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 10th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 36th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Daizen-no-daifu'', and his Court rank was Junior 4th Rank, Lowe ...

.) Jūjirō's father was Tsunezumi (常澄,

). Jūjirō's brother was

Ōta Tokitoshi Ōta Tokitoshi (太田時敏, 16 January 1839 – 20 January 1915) was a samurai of Morioka and a Sanbongi Shinden Goyogakari (new rice field affairs official in Sanbongi) of the late Edo period. He was Nitobe Inazō's uncle. He was named Renhachir ...

), and Jūjirō's sons were Shichirō (七郎) and Inanosuke (稲之助, Inazō).

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